Engl 010, Preparation for College English (Section 45), Crafton Hills College, Fall 2017 T-Th 4:00-5:50 p.m., West Complex, Room 108 Richard Leon Linfield, Ph.D.; Website www.Linfields010.wikispaces.com Voicemail (909) 307-8740; email llinfiel@craftonhills.edu Office Hours Tuesdays 12:45-1:45 p.m., LRC 107 (enter through LRC 130, go left)
Course description: Instruction in the essential skills necessary for college-level reading and effective expository writing. The course focuses on clarity and correctness in writing sentences, paragraph and essays. The principal topic of the writings is going to be YOU and how you can achieve your best vision of yourself. New methods from positive psychology and neuroscience shall be used to help you with college achievement. The course also provides assistance with using Crafton’s many resources for student success. Students should plan to give a minimum of eight hours a week outside of class to assignments.
Requirements:
Three regular graded essays (300-400 words), one research essay (800-1000 words min.), and a final exam
Read assigned essays and other material from the textbook and elsewhere each week
A variety of shorter reading and writing assignments, in-class and out, in teams and individually
Work on grammar as assigned
All work must be typed, double spaced; no handwritten work except for fill-in forms and in-class work. No late work is accepted.
General course purposes:
enhancing your skills in writing, reading and general communicating,
writing about your self-knowledge and your vision for your future,
developing your ability to locate reliable research sources and learn from them.
Each class begins at exactly the start time with a “Fiver,” a five-minute exercise on a 4x6 card; open book, open notes. Be on time and have your notes from the previous day’s assignments and classwork. Any Fiver missed or answered wrongly deducts 2½ points from your final grade. Example: missing 5 Fivers reduces your grade by 12½ points, or more than one grade level. Note: you are allowed to miss two Fivers or answer them wrongly without penalty.
COMMUNICATIONS: Use your Crafton Hills email to reach the instructor. Check your email at least twice a week; this is the one the instructor shall use to reach you. Don’t text the instructor. Also, for voicemail, don’t let your voicemail box fill up! Make sure it can receive messages.
TEXTBOOK AND MATERIALS:Pocket Keys for Writers, 6th ed. Required: notebook paper for notes and in-class writing. Fifty 4x6 index cards for “Fivers” and other work; bring a few to each class. A flat two-pocket portfolio folder, not plastic, clearly marked on the covers with your name and “Self-Knowledge.” Recommended: a college dictionary (American Heritage, Random House, Webster’s New Collegiate) and a thesaurus.
FORMAT OF ESSAYS AND OTHER WORK:Follow these directions carefully. Each piece of work must have a title centered at the top. All out-of-class work, except workbook exercises and forms filled out by hand, must be typed double-spaced in Times Roman or Ariel no larger than 12 points, on one side of the paper, with one inch margins on all four sides, and without title pages or report covers. In the upper left of the first page, type your name, the course number, and the date. On subsequent pages, type your last name and the page number in the upper right. Points are deducted from the grade of any draft that is late or incomplete.
ABSENCES AND TARDIES: A student with THREE unexcused absences may be dropped by the instructor without notice. Two tardies (five minutes late or leaving early) equal one absence. Keep track of these yourself. To excuse an absence, a student must present documentation, such as a medical receipt, for emergencies or illnesses.
NOTE WELL: Being absent is not an excuse for not knowing what the class covered or what the assignment was, nor for not having the assignment to hand in, nor for not doing the reading. If you miss a class, you must still complete the work by the due date. If you miss an assignment, call a classmate first, then the instructor if necessary. If you don’t complete an assignment, be sure to come to class anyway, so you don’t get farther behind. If you know in advance you are going to be absent, inform the instructor. If you cannot complete the coursework, you must drop the course by the last withdrawal date to avoid a failing grade.
GRADING: No student may pass the course if they miss more than two class meetings or fail to turn in any essay or other major assignment. Grading scale: A: 90 – 100; B: 80 – 89.9%; C: 70 – 79.9%; D: 60 – 69.9%; F: less than 60%. The final grade is derived primarily from an average of the graded essay assignments and is calculated on the basis of the following percentages: Quizzes, class work: 10% (not all work is graded, but missing any work deletes points from your grade) Three regular essays: 60% Multi-source essay (research paper): 20% Final exam: 10%
COMPUTER ISSUES: Computer or printer problems don’t excuse late or missing assignments. Make hard copies of all assignments as soon as they are written, and don’t wait to get to campus to print on the day of class. Make duplicates on a flash drive as a backup.
NO FOOD OR DRINK ALLOWED IN THE CLASSROOM except for bottled water. PHONES MUST BE TURNED OFF. NO LEAVING CLASS FOR PHONE CALLS!If you expect an emergency call, tell the instructor before the Fiver. Do not charge your phone in the classroom.
Crafton’s Student Services: For multi-purpose counseling see Rebecca Orta at the Student Success Program (389-3450); Career Services visits and workshops (389-3366), Transfer Center visits and workshops (389-3399), psychological and emotional health counseling (389-3272, Health Center; 389-3366, Counseling Center), and counseling for veterans and their family members (389-3256). Extra credit is available for using student services. PLAGIARISM: If students have others do their work, or copy from other students or from written sources (including Internet sources) without referencing sources, they’ve committed plagiarism. Anyone who plagiarizes shall receive an F for the course, and more serious penalties can follow.
TUTORING CENTER: At least 5 sessions in the Tutoring Center are recommended, whether doing workshops or getting one-on-one tutoring, especially for essays. Specific tutoring may be required for individuals.
Calendar – Subject to change. Follow the Assignments tab on the course website for up-to-date information. There shall be in-class presentations by student service providers. Also, students shall devote class time to readings from the “Porta-Library,” a suitcase full of books brought to class by the instructor.
NOTE: This calendar is a rough guide. Do not use it to get due dates for assignments.
Aug 15, 17 Course intro Three Laws of Writing: Interest, Quantity, Editing Intro to self-knowledge: Mindsets: fixed vs. growth
Your Reading and Writing History essay
Aug 22, 24 Signature Strengths exercise Classmates Meetup activity “Time Travel” mini-essay Who Am I, Positively? report Procrastination video & response What Interests You? worksheet
Aug 29, 31 First graded essay, Narration: intro Who Am I? essay (for Research Paper) Logical arguing: premises and conclusion Holland Code Signature Strengths, cont’d Your Stardom: intro Starfish enrollment Paragraph structure
Sept 5, 7 First graded essay, Narration, due Editing and self-esteem: the connection Commas, semicolons Using quotations Wordiness and how to avoid it Difference between college and high school, part 1 Procrastination: an addiction, part 1 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Sept 12, 14 Second graded essay, intro Stardom: first and second reports due “Willful Blindness” or “Competitiveness” critical thinking exercise Wordiness Parallelism and shifts
Sept 19, 21 Stardom: third report due Self-knowledge exercises Second graded essay due
Sept 26, 28 Logical arguing: premises and conclusion, cont’d Porta-Library I Difference between college and high school, part 1 Third graded essay, topic to be announced
Oct 3, 5
Tue Oct 3 Flex Day, No Class Stardom: fourth report due Procrastination part 2 Third graded essay topic announced
Oct 10, 12 Stardom: fifth and sixth reports due Research Paper introduced News/Fake News: propaganda and how to recognize it Porta-Library
Oct 17, 19 Logical arguing: premises and conclusion, cont’d Film screening and discussion Research Paper draft due
Oct 24, 26 Procrastination, cont’d Law of Editing exercises 3 part claims, cont’d Stardom 4th report
Oct 31, Nov 2 Quotations and paraphrases Third essay to be announced In-class writing
Nov 7, 9 Porta-Library Film 1 screening and discussion
Nov 14, 16 Three-part claims, cont’d Research paper draft workshop
Nov 21 Stardom sixth report Nov 23 Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 28, 30 Film 2 screening and discussion
Dec, 5, 7 Research Paper due Course review Exam review Final Exam Dec 12 No classes Thu Dec 13
Student Learning Outcomes for English 010: Demonstrate effective essay writing, demonstrate critical thinking, demonstrate problem solving.
Crafton Hills College’s Learning Objectives for English 010: 1-Students will compose clear, purposeful sentences within the context of paragraphs and essays, relatively free of punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors (fragments, misplaced modifiers, misused words, etc.) 2- Students will compose paragraphs and essays that focus on a single idea (thesis) supported by evidence such as examples, quotations, statistics and responses to other texts, including summary. 3- Students will integrate source materials using signal phrases and parenthetical references correlating with the works cited 4- Students will organize diverse essays (i.e. reflection, research, summary, etc.) according to logical, orderly structures that support evidence and tone 5- The essay focuses on a clear, single, central idea or thesis. 6- The essay is relatively free of fragments, punctuation errors, misspelling, etc. 7- The essay provides appropriate examples to support the topic, and the prompt/text response is thorough. 8- The essay structure is logical and unified, and the audience and tone supports the essay.
T-Th 4:00-5:50 p.m., West Complex, Room 108
Richard Leon Linfield, Ph.D.; Website www.Linfields010.wikispaces.com
Voicemail (909) 307-8740; email llinfiel@craftonhills.edu
Office Hours Tuesdays 12:45-1:45 p.m., LRC 107 (enter through LRC 130, go left)
Course description: Instruction in the essential skills necessary for college-level reading and effective expository writing. The course focuses on clarity and correctness in writing sentences, paragraph and essays. The principal topic of the writings is going to be YOU and how you can achieve your best vision of yourself. New methods from positive psychology and neuroscience shall be used to help you with college achievement. The course also provides assistance with using Crafton’s many resources for student success. Students should plan to give a minimum of eight hours a week outside of class to assignments.
Requirements:
- Three regular graded essays (300-400 words), one research essay (800-1000 words min.), and a final exam
- Read assigned essays and other material from the textbook and elsewhere each week
- A variety of shorter reading and writing assignments, in-class and out, in teams and individually
- Work on grammar as assigned
All work must be typed, double spaced; no handwritten work except for fill-in forms and in-class work. No late work is accepted.General course purposes:
- enhancing your skills in writing, reading and general communicating,
- writing about your self-knowledge and your vision for your future,
- developing your ability to locate reliable research sources and learn from them.
Each class begins at exactly the start time with a “Fiver,” a five-minute exercise on a 4x6 card; open book, open notes. Be on time and have your notes from the previous day’s assignments and classwork. Any Fiver missed or answered wrongly deducts 2½ points from your final grade. Example: missing 5 Fivers reduces your grade by 12½ points, or more than one grade level. Note: you are allowed to miss two Fivers or answer them wrongly without penalty.COMMUNICATIONS: Use your Crafton Hills email to reach the instructor. Check your email at least twice a week; this is the one the instructor shall use to reach you. Don’t text the instructor. Also, for voicemail, don’t let your voicemail box fill up! Make sure it can receive messages.
TEXTBOOK AND MATERIALS:Pocket Keys for Writers, 6th ed.
Required: notebook paper for notes and in-class writing. Fifty 4x6 index cards for “Fivers” and other work; bring a few to each class. A flat two-pocket portfolio folder, not plastic, clearly marked on the covers with your name and “Self-Knowledge.” Recommended: a college dictionary (American Heritage, Random House, Webster’s New Collegiate) and a thesaurus.
FORMAT OF ESSAYS AND OTHER WORK: Follow these directions carefully. Each piece of work must have a title centered at the top. All out-of-class work, except workbook exercises and forms filled out by hand, must be typed double-spaced in Times Roman or Ariel no larger than 12 points, on one side of the paper, with one inch margins on all four sides, and without title pages or report covers.
In the upper left of the first page, type your name, the course number, and the date. On subsequent pages, type your last name and the page number in the upper right. Points are deducted from the grade of any draft that is late or incomplete.
ABSENCES AND TARDIES: A student with THREE unexcused absences may be dropped by the instructor without notice. Two tardies (five minutes late or leaving early) equal one absence. Keep track of these yourself. To excuse an absence, a student must present documentation, such as a medical receipt, for emergencies or illnesses.
NOTE WELL: Being absent is not an excuse for not knowing what the class covered or what the assignment was, nor for not having the assignment to hand in, nor for not doing the reading. If you miss a class, you must still complete the work by the due date. If you miss an assignment, call a classmate first, then the instructor if necessary. If you don’t complete an assignment, be sure to come to class anyway, so you don’t get farther behind. If you know in advance you are going to be absent, inform the instructor. If you cannot complete the coursework, you must drop the course by the last withdrawal date to avoid a failing grade.
GRADING: No student may pass the course if they miss more than two class meetings or fail to turn in any essay or other major assignment. Grading scale: A: 90 – 100; B: 80 – 89.9%; C: 70 – 79.9%; D: 60 – 69.9%; F: less than 60%. The final grade is derived primarily from an average of the graded essay assignments and is calculated on the basis of the following percentages:
Quizzes, class work: 10% (not all work is graded, but missing any work deletes points from your grade)
Three regular essays: 60%
Multi-source essay (research paper): 20%
Final exam: 10%
COMPUTER ISSUES: Computer or printer problems don’t excuse late or missing assignments. Make hard copies of all assignments as soon as they are written, and don’t wait to get to campus to print on the day of class. Make duplicates on a flash drive as a backup.
NO FOOD OR DRINK ALLOWED IN THE CLASSROOM except for bottled water. PHONES MUST BE TURNED OFF. NO LEAVING CLASS FOR PHONE CALLS!If you expect an emergency call, tell the instructor before the Fiver. Do not charge your phone in the classroom.
Crafton’s Student Services: For multi-purpose counseling see Rebecca Orta at the Student Success Program (389-3450); Career Services visits and workshops (389-3366), Transfer Center visits and workshops (389-3399), psychological and emotional health counseling (389-3272, Health Center; 389-3366, Counseling Center), and counseling for veterans and their family members (389-3256). Extra credit is available for using student services.
PLAGIARISM: If students have others do their work, or copy from other students or from written sources (including Internet sources) without referencing sources, they’ve committed plagiarism. Anyone who plagiarizes shall receive an F for the course, and more serious penalties can follow.
TUTORING CENTER: At least 5 sessions in the Tutoring Center are recommended, whether doing workshops or getting one-on-one tutoring, especially for essays. Specific tutoring may be required for individuals.
Calendar – Subject to change. Follow the Assignments tab on the course website for up-to-date information. There shall be in-class presentations by student service providers. Also, students shall devote class time to readings from the “Porta-Library,” a suitcase full of books brought to class by the instructor.
NOTE: This calendar is a rough guide. Do not use it to get due dates for assignments.
Aug 15, 17
Course intro
Three Laws of Writing:
Interest, Quantity, Editing
Intro to self-knowledge:
Mindsets: fixed vs. growth
Your Reading and Writing History essay
Aug 22, 24
Signature Strengths exercise
Classmates Meetup activity
“Time Travel” mini-essay
Who Am I, Positively? report
Procrastination video & response
What Interests You? worksheet
Aug 29, 31
First graded essay, Narration: intro
Who Am I? essay (for Research Paper)
Logical arguing: premises and conclusion
Holland Code
Signature Strengths, cont’d
Your Stardom: intro
Starfish enrollment
Paragraph structure
Sept 5, 7
First graded essay, Narration, due
Editing and self-esteem: the connection
Commas, semicolons
Using quotations
Wordiness and how to avoid it
Difference between college and high school, part 1
Procrastination: an addiction, part 1
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Sept 12, 14
Second graded essay, intro
Stardom: first and second reports due
“Willful Blindness” or “Competitiveness” critical thinking exercise
Wordiness
Parallelism and shifts
Sept 19, 21
Stardom: third report due
Self-knowledge exercises
Second graded essay due
Sept 26, 28
Logical arguing: premises and conclusion, cont’d
Porta-Library I
Difference between college and high school, part 1
Third graded essay, topic to be announced
Oct 3, 5
Tue Oct 3 Flex Day, No Class
Stardom: fourth report due
Procrastination part 2
Third graded essay topic announced
Oct 10, 12
Stardom: fifth and sixth reports due
Research Paper introduced
News/Fake News: propaganda and how to recognize it
Porta-Library
Oct 17, 19
Logical arguing: premises and conclusion, cont’d
Film screening and discussion
Research Paper draft due
Oct 24, 26
Procrastination, cont’d
Law of Editing exercises
3 part claims, cont’d
Stardom 4th report
Oct 31, Nov 2
Quotations and paraphrases
Third essay to be announced
In-class writing
Nov 7, 9
Porta-Library
Film 1 screening and discussion
Nov 14, 16
Three-part claims, cont’d
Research paper draft workshop
Nov 21
Stardom sixth report
Nov 23 Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 28, 30
Film 2 screening and discussion
Dec, 5, 7
Research Paper due
Course review
Exam review
Final Exam Dec 12
No classes Thu Dec 13
Student Learning Outcomes for English 010: Demonstrate effective essay writing, demonstrate critical thinking, demonstrate problem solving.
Crafton Hills College’s Learning Objectives for English 010:
1-Students will compose clear, purposeful sentences within the context of paragraphs and essays, relatively free of punctuation, spelling, and grammatical errors (fragments, misplaced modifiers, misused words, etc.)
2- Students will compose paragraphs and essays that focus on a single idea (thesis) supported by evidence such as examples, quotations, statistics and responses to other texts, including summary.
3- Students will integrate source materials using signal phrases and parenthetical references correlating with the works cited
4- Students will organize diverse essays (i.e. reflection, research, summary, etc.) according to logical, orderly structures that support evidence and tone
5- The essay focuses on a clear, single, central idea or thesis.
6- The essay is relatively free of fragments, punctuation errors, misspelling, etc.
7- The essay provides appropriate examples to support the topic, and the prompt/text response is thorough.
8- The essay structure is logical and unified, and the audience and tone supports the essay.